Editorial: Owners are scrambling to unload high-profile buildings. Is this backlash to Mayor Johnson’s ‘mansion tax’? – Chicago Tribune*

"On more than one issue, Johnson and his City Council allies thus far have made a show of hearing business out and then plowing ahead with initiatives that either raise taxes or impose new requirements on companies which essentially have the same effect. Of course, what Johnson and his progressive supporters are beginning to realize is that business owners don’t simply sit pat and pull out their wallets when the taxman gets this aggressive. They pivot. They respond. In some cases, they just close down."